Reflection guide

The Daily Life Wheel Notebook

Capture today as private events across life areas, with minutes, the ring they support, and who can see them.

• 5 min
• capture today
• Add one event to today's notebook on the tab that fits.

The daily notebook is where Reflect begins. It is today's page, organized by life areas, where you jot down what happened as small events. Each event can carry how long it took and which Life Ring it supported, so a quick note today becomes meaningful balance evidence later.

That is what makes the balance real rather than a guess: minutes you actually lived, in the areas you actually lived them.

🎯 Use This When

• You want to capture today without writing a long entry.
• You want your day to count toward your Life Rings.
• You are building a daily habit of one honest note.

You do not have to type all of it. The notebook is one of

three ways to get the day into Logit. You can also speak an

event to Loggy, photograph a page of your paper journal, or let a connected

calendar show the ordinary parts as read-only context. Calendar events become

journal content only after you explicitly assign a life area and duration;

photo and voice drafts wait for your review and save.

🔒 What Stays Private

Every event starts private. You choose an audience — private, specific people, a Circle, friends, or public — per event before anything is shared. People you tag appear as private context unless you deliberately widen the audience.

✅ One Thing To Do Now

Open Reflect, pick the life-area tab that fits, and add one event for today.

How An Event Is Captured

In short: choose the life-area tab, write the event, add how many minutes it took, choose the Life Ring it supports, choose the audience, and save.

The Parts Of An Event

• Life-area tabs. The notebook is split into life areas (relationships, health, career, and so on). Pick the tab that fits what happened. Those same ten areas are what the life radar in Self is drawn from.
• Activities that fit any area. A talk, a call, a follow-up, a reading session or a trip can belong to any part of your life: a talk at a work conference is Career, a parenting talk is Relationships. These templates sit in the Common group and start in the tab you opened them from. Their Which life area? answer is always shown and you can change it with a tap. When Loggy fills one in from your words, it picks the area from what the moment was about, and you review it before anything is saved.
• Minutes. Roughly how long it took. This is what lets time add up into your Life Rings over a week.
• The ring it supports. Choose which Life Ring — Connect, Act, Reflect, or Learn — this event contributed to. A life area and a ring are independent: any area can support any ring. Self is your home base rather than a ring, so it is not one of the choices here.
• People. Tag people by name or username; they stay private context unless you change the audience.
• Audience. Private by default, or share with specific people, a Circle, friends, or publicly.

Incomplete items carry over to the next day, so nothing important is lost, and the daily page stays a notebook — archive and history views live separately so today stays focused on today.

✅ Best Practices

Follow One Piece Of Content

If you write, record, film, or publish, use the Content work session, Content published, and Content review templates under Career. Give each entry the same content title or reference and its channel or account, so you can tell a garden newsletter from a cooking video. Add a draft or published link when useful, along with the topic, audience, and format.

Work sessions capture the draft, blockers, and next step. Publication records where the piece went and what you hoped it would offer. Review the particular piece later: write down the response you observed, what worked, what did not, how the effort felt, and one manageable next experiment. Any response or numbers are your own notes; Logit does not import audience analytics or publish content.

Work and publication start in Act; reviewing starts in Reflect. Career is a starting life area you can change. Your entries stay private unless you choose an audience, even if you later accept an offer to join the Content creators Circle.

Follow a Client Delivery, Session, or Product

Use the matching Career templates to record work and then reflect on a particular engagement, campaign, lesson, batch, booking, issue, or benefit cycle:

Each entry asks for a private practice name and a specific work reference. Use the same references across sessions; add a link or a private alias if useful. Client, learner, and member identities are optional. A work entry captures the stage, what moved forward, blockers, and the next step. A review separates the outcome you observed from what helped, what you learned, the effort involved, and one next experiment.

Work entries start in Act and reviews in Reflect. You can attach the relevant goal through the existing goal link. A goal association gives the work context; it does not count the same session or minutes again. The practice's optional Circle does not receive your journal, private references, or observed results.

Choose the job, not just the topic

A balanced life is a healthy life. Your record can be an ordinary event; it does not need to be a success, a lesson, or something you feel grateful for.

When choosing a template, distinguish the event from reflecting on it:

The guided CBT thought record, Worry, Emotional regulation and Self-compassion exercises are different choices. Pick the questions that fit the exercise you want to do. They are reflection tools, not diagnosis or treatment advice.

Support received, Attempt / setback, Workday / shift, and Boundary / request communicated can capture ordinary experiences without turning them into wins, gratitude exercises or future plans. A Reading log remains separate from media sessions and reviews.

The three reviews are Common templates, so every tab offers them. Each review entry shows its own day, week, or month at a glance, one chart at a time: your Life Rings, your Life Wheel time, how many habits, goals, and tasks you completed, and your time by life area. Logit remembers the chart you last chose. The numbers are counts from your own records, never scores, and a review asks no question twice: an End of week review reads your End of day reviews back to you, and an End of month review reads your End of week reviews.

Each review also closes the loop on the last one. It opens with what you planned last time (yesterday's first thing, last week's priority, or last month's intention) and, when you turned it into a task or goal, whether that is done yet. There is no streak and nothing is counted against you; if you didn't plan anything last time, there is simply nothing to show. Under your answer about what comes next, Plan it turns that answer into a task (or, for the month, a goal) with a suggested date. You can change the title and date, and nothing is created until you confirm. Plan it appears once the review is saved to your journal.

Keep facts and reflection separate

Record what happened first. Mood and named feelings are optional: you can use your own words for several feelings without assigning a mood score. A note about another person stays your perspective, not a fact about what they felt.

On factual templates, Feelings and reflection starts as a closed optional section so you can save the event without turning a quick log into an exercise. If an entry already has an answer — or an answer needs attention before it can be saved — the section opens and says what is there. The guided CBT thought record, Worry, Emotional regulation and Self-compassion exercises keep their exercise questions in the main form because those questions are the reason for choosing the template.

When a duration question offers Actual, Estimated, or Unknown, choose the description that fits. Leave an unknown duration blank; it is not zero. The time an event happened, the time you spent writing, and a period you are reviewing are different things. A review date or deadline is a date in your record, not an automatic reminder.

Keep imported or transcribed text in Captured notes. Review it before saving; source text is not automatically your personal reflection. Any next step becomes a task only when you explicitly add it through Act.

• One honest line beats a perfect paragraph. Capture, don't perform.
• Add known minutes, or label an estimate — it helps Insights stay honest.
• Choose the ring deliberately: the same coffee with a friend might be Connect one day and Reflect another.

Saving and retrying a template

• Editing pauses while Save event is being confirmed, including when you use a keyboard. Your reviewed note stays the one being saved.
• If saving fails, your note remains in the form with an announced error and an explicit Save retry. You do not need to write it again.
• Larger text can expand the Save label and scroll the whole form, keeping the final action readable and reachable.

⚠️ Common Mistakes

• Skipping minutes, then wondering why a ring looks empty.
• Assuming a life area always maps to one ring. You choose the ring per event.
• Treating the daily page as an archive. Use the journal history views for review.

⚡ Power-User Technique

End the day with two or three quick events across different tabs and rings. Over a week this gives Insights a balanced, honest picture without ever feeling like data entry.

Keep Intentions Connected to Real Experience

If the starting point is anxiety, overwhelm, or a feeling you cannot name yet, choose A feeling. From a Feeling to a Next Step walks through the questions, optional action, community support, and completion reflection, by hand or with Loggy.

The notebook records the life you have actually lived. Goals, tasks, and habits in Act carry the same two labels — a life area and a Life Ring — so each item names what it supports.

Logged and completed time supplies the evidence for your balance views. A future plan does not plot predicted time on the life radar. Review the real record, then decide whether to make more room for a part of life.

Where Today's Page Leads

In short: today's page is what makes a thin area visible, that becomes a goal in Act, you can choose a Circle gathered around that practice, and what changes comes back to this page — which is where the next thing worth noticing shows up.

🌿 Why This Matters

Balance is built from small, real moments, not grand entries. A notebook that captures today in seconds is what makes the weekly and monthly picture true.

🧠 Related Concepts

• Memory and meaning
• What balance means here
• Why reflection matters

🧭 Related Areas

• Reflect
• Act
• Connect
• Self

⭕ Related Life Rings

• Reflect Ring
• Understand Your Life Rings

🛠️ Related Features

• Three ways to get the day into Logit
• Write a private note
• Create journal events from photos or voice
• Insights and patterns

📚 Continue Learning

1. Three Ways To Get The Day Into Logit — the faster ways in when typing is what is stopping you.
2. Write A Private Note — when a moment deserves more than a line.
3. Tasks, Habits, And Goals — turning a thin area into something you are actually doing.
4. See Your Insights And Patterns — what a few weeks of minutes add up to.
5. Your Daily Workflow — where this page sits in an ordinary day.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to fill in every tab every day?

No. Capture what actually happened. Empty areas are information too.

Is the daily notebook public?

No. Every event is private until you choose an audience for it.

Why is there no Self option when I choose a ring?

Self is your home base — where you set targets, see the life radar, and read your insights — rather than something you spend time on. Only Connect, Act, Reflect, and Learn take minutes.

Do I have to add minutes?

No. Use an actual duration or label an estimate when useful. If you do not know, leave it blank rather than accepting a suggested number as something that happened.

Does writing a follow-up or review date create a task or reminder?

No. Writing a possible next step or date only records it. Use the separate Act action when you want to create a task, and choose a reminder explicitly when that option is offered.

Is receiving support the same as gratitude?

No. Support received records what was offered or received and any difference it made. You do not have to express gratitude, call it helpful, or share the entry.

Can I save facts before I am ready to reflect?

Yes. Complete the event's core facts and choose Save event. Where offered, choose Revisit this, Done, or Skip, or use Clear to leave all three unselected. Revisit is a private list, not a reminder, due date or overdue signal. Your choice and any answers remain local to the open form until you choose Save event. Use Save draft when you are still collecting the core facts.

Why did a form offer me a Circle?

Event templates can offer a Circle of people keeping the same practice when there is a suitable room. Support practices (sleep, meditation, grief, worry, cravings and the other journal topics) may offer a regional Circle on first use. The row starts unticked: review the named state, province or country and choose to join if it helps. Practice rooms (workouts, budgeting, catch-ups, cooking, and the rest) are never suggested on a first entry: after you have logged the same kind of event a few times, the form shows an unticked offer for three saves, then stops asking. Each offer names one regional Circle, with no parent community. Review the region before ticking it; joining happens after the entry saves. Joining shares membership only, your entries stay private, and you can leave from the Circle page any time. Medical and administrative logs never suggest a room. Other factual logs without a matching practice may also show no suggestion. Catch-up and the separate solo relationship check-in both offer Strengthening relationships. CBT, Worry, Emotional regulation and Self-compassion each keep their own support room. Saving a draft does not join a Circle or use up a suggestion.

Can something else fill this page in for me?

Partly. A connected calendar can show you what your week held so you can say what it was worth, and Loggy can turn speech or a photographed page into a draft event. Neither one saves anything to this page on its own — see three ways to get the day into Logit.

Can I reflect on one specific post, video, or newsletter?

Yes. Choose Content review, enter the piece's title or reference and channel, and optionally add its link. Capture the response you actually observed and what you want to try next. Reuse that reference in Content work session and Content published entries to keep the context clear across your work.